Dick Cavett
Dick Cavett
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavettis an American television personality and former talk show host notable for his conversational style and in-depth discussions. Cavett appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth19 November 1936
CityGibbon, NE
CountryUnited States of America
book thinking records
I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
thinking statistics coincidence
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.
party thinking people
If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will say, 'Well, there are so many people here who haven't murdered anyone. I think I'll go talk to them.' I'll also riot.
thinking surprise reactions
I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.
writing thinking easy
I think I'd be pretty easy to write for.
thinking remembers-everything youth
In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
thinking television way
You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
thinking age mediocrity
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
fate loss thinking
Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.
cane moving stage
Really? Going on stage with a cane and moving the way you do?
diary kept older wish
Don't you wish you could have been a little older and kept a diary of all those meetings?
muddy saved
Well, it saved her a lot of muddy shoes,
checked distressed failed gentlemen hear lyrics pointed television terribly
That was a real contribution to television, ... It was pointed out to me after the show by a terribly distressed gentleman. He checked everything. It's as if he checked the lyrics for 'Tea for Two' and failed to check that. I don't know if they had lyrics with them, but he didn't hear it.
great rock
I don't know who said, 'Dick would be great with rock people,'